Why do victims sometimes receive sympathy for their suffering and at other times scorn and blame? Here we show a powerful role for moral values in attitudes toward victims. We measured moral values associated with unconditionally prohibiting harm (“individualizing values”) versus moral values associated with prohibiting behavior that destabilizes groups and relationships (“binding values”: loya...

PROBLEM Alcohol-related youth traffic fatalities continue as a major public-health concern. While state and federal laws can be useful in tackling this problem, the efficacy of many laws has not been empirically demonstrated. We examined the impact of state laws prohibiting alcohol advertising to target minors. METHOD Using statistics obtained from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS...

Prohibiting external control is one of the key principles engineers apply when building time-predictable computer systems (e.g., time-triggered computer systems do not react to any external interrupts from sensors or devices, but all actions of these computer systems are triggered solely by the progression of the local clock). In this paper we apply this principle of prohibiting external contro...

Why do victims sometimes receive sympathy for their suffering and at other times scorn and blame? Here we show a powerful role for moral values in attitudes toward victims. We measured moral values associated with unconditionally prohibiting harm ("individualizing values") versus moral values associated with prohibiting behavior that destabilizes groups and relationships ("binding values": loya...

reviewing the verses of holy quran, we find some verses in which the god al-mighty addresses the prophet muhammad (pbuh) reproachfully. the most important of these reproaches are as follows: request of forgiveness from allah, prohibiting of doubt, prohibiting of paganism, emphasis on the divine protection, blame on divine sanction and emphasis on the primacy of the fear of god to the fear of pe...